Errico Malatesta (December 14, 1853 - July 22, 1932) on War and Capitalism(published by RevoltSource) |
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Italian, Anarchist, Propagandist, Revolutionary Socialist, Editor of Radical Newspapers, Exiled and Expelled from Italy, England, France, and Switzerland
: An Italian anarchist propagandist and revolutionary socialist. He edited several radical newspapers and spent much of his life exiled and imprisoned, having been jailed and expelled from Italy, England, France, and Switzerland. Originally a supporter of insurrectionary propaganda by deed, Malatesta later advocated for syndicalism. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
Quote #12 on Political Struggle Quotes >> War and Capitalism
“..."France," or "Germany," and of other political and national agglomerations—results of historical struggles—as of homogenous ethnographic units, each having its proper interests, aspirations, and mission, in opposition to the interests, aspirations and a mission of rival units. This may be true relatively, so long as the oppressed, and chiefly the workers, have no self-consciousness, fail to recognize the injustice of their oppressors. There is, then, the dominating class only that counts; and this class, owing to its desire to conserve and to enlarge its power, even its prejudices and its own ideas, may find it convenient to excite racial ambitions and hatred, and send its nation, its flock, against "foreign" countries, with a view to releasing them from their present oppressors, and submitting them to its own political economical domination.
["Anarchists Have Forgotten Their Principles," by Errico Malatesta, from: Freedom, November 1914.]”
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